Peace Of Westphalia And The Vietnam War

In contrast with the days of Westphalia, two world superpowers fighting each other over who could gain more global influence is quite a significant change from the bare-bones delegation of the right to self-determination, and though all the prior laws of world order are supposed to apply to subsequent one, they are slightly twisted and worked-around in this iteration. In an examples such as the ideological fight for Vietnam or Korea, one could consider that the people of these nations had an independent decision to decide which alliance to side with, but it would quickly grow into a much larger conflict that held no regard for the objections to the sovereignless nation’s mutually assured destruction. The people of Vietnam were as much as the victims of the war as were the innocent families of Protestant and Catholic faith during the Thirty Years’ War; Which was agreed upon to never happen again post-Westphalia.
troops using the same morally compelling rhetoric as seen in the Peace of Westphalia congress; If that is any concert to the replaying of history seen in both events and